Bio

Andrew Maxwell leads the Competition team at Freeths LLP. He has extensive expertise on EU and UK competition/antitrust law and all related practice areas. Andrew regularly advises on complex investigations into mergers (including on merger arbitrage), markets, cartels (including on Dawn Raids and leniency applications) and abuse of dominance. He has represented clients in antitrust proceedings before the European Commission, the UK competition regulators and the courts. In addition to wide-ranging experience advising on behavioural and transactional antitrust and regulatory issues (and on competition litigation), Andrew has also acted for a large number of private and public sector clients on complex issues of EU regulation, including on state aid, procurement (and procurement litigation), free movement and trade. Andrew has a wealth of experience advising and training clients across the Beauty and Personal Care sector on behavioural competition law issues and compliance, as well as successfully helping clients whose businesses have come to the attention of the competition authorities. Prior to joining Freeths, Andrew worked for Competition and Antitrust teams at a number of top 50 UK law firms, namely SJ Berwin, Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham (now Gowling WLG), Stephenson Harwood, Travers Smith and RPC. He has also undertaken secondments in-house as Legal Counsel at a major FTSE 100 financial services client and as Legal Director at the UK competition regulator, the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority), where Andrew led the Legal teams advising three CMA Panels. Having worked for EU Competition teams in Brussels (twice) and Madrid, and having lived in a number of countries, including Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain, Andrew speaks six languages and has a network of international law firm contacts he draws on for multi-jurisdictional investigations and analyses. He has a Masters’ Degree in European, Comparative and International law from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and is widely published on a range of competition and antitrust issues. Andrew also regularly presents at seminars and delivers client training, including on competition compliance and Dawn Raids, to Boards of Directors, Senior Management and In-House Legal teams.